Al-Biruni, celebrated mathematician and astronomer, came to
India in the wake of the invading forces of Mahmud of Ghazni in
the eleventh  century (11 AD). He stayed in India from 1017-
1030 to study deeper Indian sciences and philosophies.

His enquiry into India, popularly known in its original Arabic
version as Tarikhu'l Hind, is erudite and, as a historic
chronicle of its kind, a classic. There is much in this
chronicle that reads like fiction, while being at the same time
an objective record of the history, character, manners and
customs of India of that time. Al-Biruni's Kitabul Hind (Al-
Biruni India), is a historical book that is of great importance
in Indian cultural studies and is popular among world
historians, especially in the Arab world

Sachau's well-known English translation of the classic has been
used in this publication, but edited specially by Q Ahmad for a
large and popular readership.

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